Anne Mans

  We all associate different smells with different emotions, right? Well, we encounter most new smells in our youth. But did you know that we first start to associate smells with emotions before we are even born? Turns out that not only can we hear things while in the womb, but we can experience smells too… and even more interesting, is the fact that smells widely considered unpleasant, such as… […]

I've recently acquired a motorcycle. Yes, I know what you're thinking..."it's a midlife crisis" or "trying to recapture his long-lost youth" yada yada. But to be fair, this is nothing new - I've been riding motorcycles since I was 5 years old - literally! I rode for the very first time on a friend's parents farm - and they have a little PW 50 for the kids. Fell first time […]

I was as surprised as, I would Imagine, most people were around the world when the Russia/Ukraine war erupted in February. Who would have imagined another conflagration of this scale happening in Europe some 80 years after the Second World War. It was unthinkable. After all the reason it was unlikely that war would erupt there again was the basic truth that the two World Wars were centred in Europe, […]

The old saying goes that "everyone has one book in them"...and while I've dabbled in creative writing - I was about three quarters of the wy through writing a crime thriller while at Varsity - I've never really gotten back into writing of whqtever natutre. Until now. To be honest I'm much more critical of my own efforts in this regard than Iv was back in the day, but I […]